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Thursday, April 11, 2014
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City to increase business, apartment recycling By Jeanne Kuang
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As Evanston renegotiates its trash and recycling collection contracts, city officials plan to improve the recycling rate of businesses and apartment buildings before the contracts are due for renewal in late 2015. In 2013, commercial buildings and multi-family buildings recycled about 8 percent of their waste, Public Works director Suzette Robinson said during last week’s City Council meeting. Although the number, known as the diversion rate, is almost double the recycling d one by businesses and apartments in 2009, it remains low compared to the 40 percent of recycling done by single-family homes. Robinson said during the meeting that the renewal of the contracts provides a good opportunity for the city to improve the diversion rates of both apartment buildings and single-family homes. “This is the time for us, ... whether it’s by ordinance or by contract, to encourage more recycling,” Robinson told The Daily. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said during last week’s meeting that the issue will generate “lots of discussions, lots of community meetings over the next 18 months or so.” “I’m waving my red flags,” he said. “These are significant issues that we’ll be grappling with.”
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The increase in the diversion rate of commercial and apartment buildings in the past few years, Robinson said, is largely due to the city’s Municipal Solid Waste Franchise program, which was adopted through a city ordinance in 2008. The program, which was intended to reduce waste removal costs for individual businesses and apartment buildings, provides a single collection agency contracted to collect waste for all commercial and multifamily residential buildings in Evanston.
NU hosts summit on sustainability By Annie Bruce
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Northwestern will host the Engineers for a Sustainable World National Conference for the first time this weekend. The conference coincides with the NU branch of ESW’s annual NU Summit on Sustainability. Laura Pettersen, co-project manager of the summit, said about 150 students from 27 different ESW branches across the country will be coming to attend the weekend’s events. Due to the national conference, NU’s Summit is attracting a much larger group of students than in the past. This group will have the opportunity to attend events for both sets of programming. The theme of this year’s summit is “Innovation and the Environment,” and Pettersen said she hopes students leave feeling optimistic about the environmental future. “Right now a lot of people have a pessimistic view about the future environmentally,” the McCormick junior said. “We’re
kind of hoping that by coming to this conference, students are gonna be able to hear from professionals in different fields and what they’re doing to try to mitigate some of these not-so-great environmental problems that we are faced with.” Pettersen is especially looking forward to hearing Mark Weick, director of the Sustainability Program Office at the Dow Chemical Company, speak about “Innovating for Sustainability” during the Friday afternoon summit keynote address. “He’s from a very big company that, in the past, has not always had the greatest reputation,” Pettersen said. “He’s going to talk to us about what Dow is doing now in order to become a greener company.” Rachel Scholes, outgoing co-president of NU’s chapter of ESW, said partnering with the ESW-National by hosting the conference at NU allowed them to expand the summit’s events, which were limited to three panels and one keynote speaker last year. “(It’s) not something that we can usually put on just at the scale of having » See sustainability, page 6
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Evanston residents who live in singlefamily homes use the city’s trash collection service, which also provides weekly recycling pickup. Robinson said this service makes recycling for single-family homes easier than for apartments or businesses. “When it’s your home and you can directly manage it, and you’re going out to your container anyway, it’s easy to kind of separate (recyclables),” she said. Apartment owners participating in the Municipal Solid Waste Franchise
Communication alum Stephen Colbert to host ‘The Late Show’
Stephen Colbert (Communication ‘86) will be the next host of “The Late Show,” succeeding former host David Letterman, CBS announced Thursday. Colbert will begin hosting the show in 2015. Colbert is the star of “The Colbert Report,” which has aired since
NUIT systems mostly unaffected by Heartbleed
Northwestern University Information Technology announced Thursday that the majority of its websites and systems, including CAESAR, Blackboard and WildCARDs, are unaffected by a widespread online security flaw called “Heartbleed.” To further strengthen NU’s online security, NUIT performed emergency maintenance on wireless networks Thursday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.,
program are required to provide a cityissued 95-gallon recycling bin in their buildings. But owners must pay more for their buildings to receive increased recycling services, Robinson said. The city has not yet come up with a plan for future contracts. To raise the recycling rate of businesses and apartments, the city plans to conduct surveys and research before drawing up a new request in the fall for companies to submit contract proposals to trash and recycling collection 2005, and returned to NU in 2011 to deliver the commencement address. He will not retain his role on the “The Colbert Report” once he makes the move to “The Late Show.” Another NU alumnus, Seth Meyers (Communication ‘96) recently broke into the late night circuit as the host of NBC’s “Late Night.” During their years at NU, both Colbert and Meyers were also a part of several theatre productions. — Jordan Harrison
during which users could expect loss of wireless connection for up 45 minutes. Heartbleed, discovered Monday, is a worldwide security bug that compromises usernames, passwords and other normally protected online information. Most online data within the University is secure, so NUIT is not recommending students change their NetID passwords at this time. The organization disclosed a full list of websites and systems that are not vulnerable to the bug. NUIT also created a test open to community members with the
services. Both the Municipal Solid Waste Franchise program and Evanston’s residential trash and recycling contracts are up for renewal in late 2015. The city is testing pilot programs in apartments by providing recycling bags and visiting buildings to evaluate space concerns. Robinson also wants to encourage more recycling from businesses. “We’re looking at the possibilities and opportunities for a commercial food scrap program, which would significantly raise the diversion rate for the restaurant population,” Robinson said. Bobkiewicz said during the council meeting last week that a new contract “could very well be a major change as to how we do business with our collection of refuse and recycling.” “The result will be ... very much confusion, very much anger, among perhaps property owners who will say they do not have any room for this,” he said. “We will be likely bringing forward proposals that will be very provocative, very different … that will have major impacts on the many many thousands of residents throughout Evanston who live in multi-family housing facilities.” When the Municipal Solid Waste Franchise program began, about 35 percent of buildings that purchased waste collection services also requested recycling. That number has since increased to more than 50 percent. Robinson said she hopes a new contract in the future will » See recycling, page 6
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colbert at night Stephen Colbert (Communications ‘86) will replace David Letterman as the host of “Late Night” following Letterman’s retirement.
ability to check whether Heartbleed has affected specific server hosts or machines. They also warned that increased “phishing attacks” tend to occur during high-profile security problems, so students should take caution against scam emails. NUIT Communications Manager Sherry Minton said she recommends students do not use the same password for all online accounts and said her department is currently assessing the vulnerability of departmental IT systems. — Jordan Harrison
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